the walmart thread

[Barbara]

Busted at the local Walmart for stealing thongs

[QueenBee]

Well..I am guessing this woman will NOT be up for Employee of the Month:
WHEC,COM It was a brazen heist at the Walmart in Gates. Now, the former employee accused of stealing more than $160,000 has plead guilty to second-degree grand larceny.

Andrea Gray was in court Tuesday.

In February, I-Team 10 obtained a written statement made by Gray. She says she was put up to the heist by a boyfriend. Gray worked in the money room and on a morning in November, she told police she walked into the store with a duffel bag and filled it with cash.

According to police reports obtained by I-Team 10, Gray helped herself to more than $160,000 by simply walking into the store and filling a duffel bag.

Police reports stated that she worked in the cash room as a money counter and in a signed statement by Gray, offers plenty of other details. In it, she says she was put up to the heist by a boyfriend.

It was the morning of Friday, November 12, the day after Veteran's Day, and Gray says she knew there was more than $100,000 dollars inside because the armored car company that takes the deposits had not done so the day before because of the holiday.

Gray told police she and her boyfriend came up with a story that she had been kidnapped by two men while leaving her home on Lenox Street in the city for work and that the men threatened to kill her children if she didn't do what they said.

In reality, she says she drove with her boyfriend to the store, took the money, put it in the car and watched as he drove away. I-Team 10 is not naming the boyfriend because he has not been charged with any crimes.

Police say Gray's story was filled with inconsistencies and when pressed for details, they say she confessed.

Gray was facing a maximum of five to 15 years in prison; Assistant District Attorney Mark Monaghan wanted her to serve three to nine years. Today, Judge Joseph Valentino said he will sentence Gray to one year in jail with time served and will order her to pay restitution.

Gray will be sentenced on April 26. She has been in jail since November 2010.

[Lady Cop]

duh. that's a grand larceny. moron.

COLONIE NY -- A Watervliet man was arrested after he picked up a $1,900 flat-screen TV off the shelf at Wal-Mart and took it straight to the returns counter, police said.

Philemon Ofosu, 23, was at the Latham Farms Wal-Mart on Troy-Schenectady Road just before 7 p.m. April 12 when he allegedly tried to pull the bold trick, according to Colonie police.

He got $1,995.84 cash for returning the 55-inch Samsung, police said, after which security detained him and called police.

Ofosu was sent to the Albany County Jail.

[ramseycat]

That is not far from where I work. ahahahaaa!

[QueenBee]

Wonder if this is the boyfriend of the lady who stole the money from the Walmart near me (see the post just before LC's.)

[Lady Cop]

maybe i'm a snob. but i don't get this...a friend who is a retired professional, and her husband, a lawyer, (in otherwords well-off) shop for their groceries at walmart. i about fell over when she said that. ok maybe packaged goods, paper goods...but i would never buy my fresh meat at walmart! it could be possums!


NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Wal-Mart's core shoppers are running out of money much faster than a year ago due to rising gasoline prices, and the retail giant is worried, CEO Mike Duke said Wednesday.

"We're seeing core consumers under a lot of pressure," Duke said at an event in New York. "There's no doubt that rising fuel prices are having an impact."

Wal-Mart shoppers, many of whom live welfare check to welfare check, <----(ok i made that part up) typically shop in bulk at the beginning of the month when their checks come in.

Lately, they're "running out of money" at a faster clip, he said.

[QueenBee]

LC, I heard that, too. I am on your side...I buy some stuff at the super center...but will pass on the mystery meat.

Welfare check to welfare check???

[Lady Cop]

LC, I heard that, too. I am on your side...I buy some stuff at the super center...but will pass on the mystery meat.

Welfare check to welfare check???

i was joking but not really. when i was stuck for a year on shoplifter duty, i knew exactly what days the welfare checks came and could predict how busy i'd be while they did their monthly shoplifting.

[Lady Cop]

just another day at walmart.



STAFFORD, Va. --

Walmart shoppers in Stafford County saw the sight of their lives Tuesday night—a cow, on all fours, trying to score gallons of milk.

An 18-year-old man dressed up in a cow suit stole 26 gallons of milk around 10:35 p.m. from the Garrisonville Walmart, Stafford County Sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy said.

The man was apparently crawling while he exited the store, trying to emulate cattle, Kennedy said.

Soon afterward, witnesses told Stafford sheriff's deputies that the man was handing out the pilfered milk jugs to passersby outside of the Walmart, Kennedy said.

It was unclear Wednesday how he managed to get all of that milk out of the busy store on Garrisonville Road.

Kennedy said that store employees saw the thief “skipping down the sidewalk” in the cow suit before leaving the immediate area.

[QueenBee]

And he really thought he would go unnoticed? Now THAT article deserves a video..or at least pictures.

[Lady Cop]

well walmart figured out how to solve their problem. (post#46)


NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Wal-Mart said Thursday that it is bringing guns back to many of its U.S. stores in an effort to lift slumping sales.

In 2006, Wal-Mart (WMT, Fortune 500), the world's largest retailer stopped selling guns in the majority of its stores, blaming slow demand for those types of firearms.

Wal-Mart currently sells rifles, shotguns and ammunition in about 1,300 stores in the United States.

Those firearms will now be available at about half of Wal-Mart's 4,000 stores.

The retailer doesn't sell handguns in any of its stores, other than in Alaska.

[Lady Cop]

WWSB

BRADENTON, FL. - Bradenton Police say a 22-year-old woman went on a rampage at Wal-Mart Tuesday night after being questioned about her receipt.

It all happened after 11 pm at the store in the 5300 block of Cortez Road West.

A report from the Bradenton Police Department says Myra Mays walked towards the exit doors with a cart full of items she had not paid for. Officers say when the customer service manager asked where Mays' receipt was, she said she didn't have one and tried to pick up a bar stool in the cart and hit the manager with it. Mays continued to leave the store with 43 items, according to the report, $211 worth of unpaid merchandise.

Store employees continued to try and stop her, when she became loud and got outside the first set of doors. She then knocked over a display of gas grills and caused more than $1k damage to them.

Mays left the store into the parking lot when store officials told her that if she didn't leave, the police would be called...she refused. Mays then overturned shopping carts, ran carts into parked cars and spit on parked cars. Officers say she then spit on two Wal-Mart managers and an employee before she punched them. A report says spit dripped off their shirts.

When the first officer arrived on scene, Mays appeared to comply, but then threw a cell phone at the officer. It took three officers to control Mays and put her into the patrol car, which she then spit all over and kicked the doors.

Officers say Mays then slipped out of the first pair of handcuffs, so they put a pair of flexcuffs and a fabric leg restraint on her. A report says Mays spit then landed on a detective's hand that arrived to speak with her.

A trace amount of marijuana was found inside Mays’ purse, and while being examined by medical staff at the Manatee County Jail, she admitted to ingesting unknown pills and then began to vomit.

Mays is charged with multiple offenses, including Aggravated Assault and Battery.

[Duchess]

I don't know how cops stand it. Someone spits on me & I'm taking that bitch out!

[Maggot]

Target is cheaper than wally world. Heh. better shit too.

[Cracker]

Target is cheaper than wally world. Heh. better shit too.

Yes, but do they HAVE to ask you if you want a Target card every single fucking time? Do they? I think so.

[Lady Cop]

well DUHHHHH!

see the photos here:

http://www.wxii12.com/slideshow/r/28333623/detail.html

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- A woman posing as a Walmart employee made off with $1,200 a customer was planning to use to purchase a new television, Winston-Salem police said.

Police said Betty Jean Johnson, 26, went to the store on Kester Mill Road at about 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday and was approached by a woman near the door who was wearing a Walmart nametag.

The woman struck up a conversation with Johnson, who told the woman she was there to buy a television, police said.

Johnson told police the woman offered to get her an employee discount on the television, but Johnson would have to give the woman the cash.

Police said the woman walked out the front door of the store with Johnson's money, saying she would have to re-enter through the employee entrance.

Police said Johnson waited, but the woman never returned.

The woman, described as black in her 30s or 40s, is thought to have left in a silver car driven by a man, police said.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the Winston-Salem Police Department.

[Lady Cop]

::bana::::bana::::bana::

FORT WALTON BEACH — A 29-year-old woman was caught trying to steal bananas from Walmart Supercenter.

The woman was seen by a store employee hiding the fruit in her diaper bag and then placing the bag in her stroller.

She then attempted to leave the store without making any payments, according to her arrest report from the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office.

The woman was stopped outside the store and a search of her stroller was done. Store employees found $195.02 worth of items in her diaper bag and stroller.

[Lady Cop]

eewwww nasty!

An Indiana man was arrested yesterday after he was caught masturbating in a stall inside the women’s room of a Walmart in Indianapolis.

The suspect, Brandon Jelks, was first spotted by female shoppers who heard moans “and sounds of someone” masturbating emanating from the stall. One witness went into the adjoining stall to look under the divider, and reported seeing “a pair of blue patterned boxers around the ankles of what appeared to be a man’s shoes."

An off-duty cop working security at the store was then summoned. When the cop confronted a startled Jelks, 20, as he exited the stall (“with his pants unzipped”), he claimed to have accidentally gone into the wrong bathroom. Jelks was handcuffed and brought to the loss prevention office where a search turned up two boxes of condoms that had been shoplifted from the store, according to an Indianapolis Police Department report.

Jelks explained that he had used two of the condoms while pleasuring himself in the women’s bathroom. While being detained, he also reportedly told a Walmart official that he “had a sex problem” and went into the bathroom “to look at the women” while masturbating. While he was doing this, Jelks noted, he was looking at pornography on his cell phone.

The multitasking pervert--who explained that he “needed” to spy on the bathroom occupants to “arouse” himself--was charged with indecent exposure and criminal trespass. Jelks was booked into the Marion County jail, where he remains in custody.

[FAHQTOO]

Multitasking pervert

[Lady Cop]

too icky even for walmart

is that even possible? have you seen that people of walmart site??



EUGENE, Ore. - Sandy McMillin and her sister Karla Vogt went to Walmart on Sunday to buy sour cream, chips and coffee creamer.

The temperature that day hit 90 degrees, so McMillin threw on a turquoise bikini and a pair of shorts.

She said five minutes into her shopping trip while in the clothing aisle, a store employee told her to put on a shirt or leave, saying the swimsuit violated health codes.

"I was horrified," McMillin told KVAL News. "I am embarrassed."

"We just walked in, straight over to the clothing," Vogt said. "It's wrong. If you don't like the way someone looks, don't look at them."

McMillin said employees then escorted her and her sister out of the store.

"I hadn't done anything obnoxious or outlandish," McMillin said.

To be fair, KVAL News contacted Walmart to get their side of the story.

Walmart spokeswoman Ashley Hardie told KVAL News that McMillin has it all wrong.

Hardie said customers complained and McMillin verbally abused people in the store. But Hardie said McMillin was was never escorted outside.

"We can understand her frustration. It was not our intent to offend the customer, and we have apologized to her," Hardie said. "We have also reinforced with our associates our expectations of how to handle these matters."

McMillin said that is not good enough and that she will never shop at Walmart again.